Dictionary of Upriver HalkomelemAn extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information. |
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ABDF ABFC ablaut adjective/adjectival verb attested by AC attested by Deming attested by Elders attested by IHTTC BHTTC BLDG bound root canoe Cheh Chehalis Chilliwack Chinook Jargon consonant merger continuative Creek derivational suffix DESC dialects diminutive dnom durative é-ablaut edited by BG EFAM Elders Group example fish FOOD Fraser River free root Harrison River Indian infixed intransitive verb intransitivizer kw'e lexical suffix literally Lushootseed mdl.s meaning uncertain metathesis middle voice Musqueam names reference file nominal Nooksack one's perhaps phonology place names reference plural possible ablaut possibly root prob probably root purposeful control transitivizer qéx reduplication RG & EH root meaning unknown s-th Salish cognate semantic environment semological sources Squamish stative stress-shift structured activity syntactic analysis Tait transitive tsel TVMO updrifting Upriver Halkomelem vowel merger vowel-loss vowel-reduction WATR WETH